Shattuck Gallery presents painting and textile exhibit

Thursday

May 29, 2014 at 12:01 AM

WESTPORT — Dedee Shattuck Gallery is pleased to present Paint Pattern Print Texture: Exploring the Blurred Lines between Textile and Paint, an exhibition of five artists examining the shared language of painting and textile work. The exhibit runs from June 4th through June 29th.

WESTPORT — Dedee Shattuck Gallery is pleased to present Paint Pattern Print Texture: Exploring the Blurred Lines between Textile and Paint, an exhibition of five artists examining the shared language of painting and textile work. The exhibit runs from June 4th through June 29th.

Daphne Taylor uses fabric and thread to create meditative quilt drawings that embody her unique artistic expression and harmony. The stitching ranges from the intrigue of loose gestural drawings to the focus of geometric paintings. This exhibition includes whole cloth and pieced quilts as well as a group of small embroidered drawings. Taylor's work is elegant, quiet, and introspective.

Pat Coomey Thornton creates colorful and exuberant semi-abstract works in gouache, acrylic, watercolor, ink and graphite. Often, Thornton digitally manipulates her abstract paintings and studies by tiling, repeating, flipping and tessellating them as a screen printer might do. These digital compositions are then printed on silk georgette and satin, creating textile pattern from her dynamic design elements.

Sophia Narrett will receive her MFA in painting from RISD this spring, her study of painting informs her figurative embroidered works. Figures, both nude and dressed in various period attire relate in narrative scenes dreamlike in nature. The works are vexing, haunting, and intriguing. Bold colors and complex hand stitching create strong energetic compositions.

Elin Noble experiments with textile dying, stitching, and patterning in an artistic process that marries the scientific and the intuitive. Her Fugitive Pieces series interprets quilt making in an expressive and thought-provoking way. Fabrics dyed with layers of rich color are articulated with circuitous stitched lines, complimenting and contrasting the dye colors. The quilts are almost action paintings in process and aesthetic.

Eck Follen uses encaustic painting and mixed media to create works that use color, texture, repetition, symmetry and asymmetry to explore visual ideas. The works are thoughtful and beautiful and showcase Follen's signature expertise of color and design.

These five artists are not concerned with the traditional definitions of "painting" and "textile art" but see extraordinary opportunities in the boundaries between them, boldly creating works that can't be fully classified by either term.

Paint Pattern Print Texture: Exploring the Blurred lines Between Textile and Paint runs Wednesday, June 4 through Sunday, June 29 with an artists' reception Saturday, June 7 from 5 to 7 p.m.

For more information about Paint Pattern Print Texture, to arrange an interview with Dedee Shattuck or with the artists, or to obtain additional publicity images, contact Isabel Mattia at isabel@dedeeshattuckgallery.com.